Food costs for 9 days in Rarotonga

Food is usually the 3rd highest cost of a holiday so if you're wanting to be careful with your spending in this area you should set yourself a total
amount you want to spend and break it down to an each day cost.

We set our foodbudget to $400 per person on our recent trip to Rarotonga. Being the tropics,
we tendto eat only fruit for breakfast so only the cost of lunch and dinner was needed to be covered each day and we thought a maximum of $20 per meal
would be a good average.

Our visitwas a total of 9 days so I allowed $40per person per day + a little for the times spentat airports if needed. Hoping we didn’t need that much we thought we mightafford a few cocktails during our stay with this amount each
set aside.

Not wantingto be too frugal this trip we decided to source some cheaper eating places asresearch for the blog ;) as well as a couple of restaurant meals to see if itwas still possible to spend less than our allocated $40 per
person, per day.

On return from our visit, I added up our food costs and was shocked to find we only spent$265 each on eating out. This did afford us a few cocktails while here and withour duty free bottle of bourbon when arrived kept alcohol
costs down. Foodwasn’t needed at airports in transit as Virgin provided food during all flightsand we only spent a
total of $20 buying fruit and UHT milk for coffee in ouraccommodation.

Roadside Stall, Titikaveka, Rarotonga

FOOD COSTS FROM OUR 2019 TRIP

Total amount spent was $600 for 2 people over 9 days.

MONDAY

REEFSIDE RAROTONGA

2 x Coffee $10

THE MOORINGFISH CAFE

2 x Fish Sandwich $30

1 x Fruitsmoothie $7.50

CHARLIE’SCAFE

VegetablePanini shared $18

TOTAL COST$65.50nz

TUESDAY

LBV

2 x Coffee $10

DELI-LICIOUSCAFÉ

2 xBreakfast special $20

1 x OJshared $5

(dinner at Island dancing show)

TOTAL COST$35.00nz

WEDNESDAY

DELI-LICIOUSCAFÉ

2 xBreakfast special $20

1 x Coffee $5

ROADSIDE STALL

Coconut water (Nu) $5

MURI NIGHTMARKET

1 x Lambcurry & rice $16

1 x Chicken& rice $16

TOTAL COST $62.00nz

THURSDAY

Fruit forbreakfast

REEFSIDE RAROTONGA

2 x Coffee $10

CHARLIE’SCAFÉ

1 x Fishsandwich shared $14

PALACE TAKEAWAY

2 x ChickenBurger $16

TOTAL COST $40.00nz

FRIDAY

Fruit forbreakfast

REEFSIDE RAROTONGA

2 x Coffee $10

THE MOORINGFISH CAFÉ

1 x Fishsandwich shared $15

SPAGHETTIHOUSE

2 x ChickenFettuccini $46

TOTAL COST$71.00nz

SATURDAY

PUNANGA NUIMARKET

2 x Egg& Bacon Roll $14

2 xSmoothie $10

COCONUTCRAB CAFÉ

1 x TunaSammie $6

1 x ChickenRoti Wrap $6

2 x Coffee $10

Made owntea in accom.

TOTAL COST $46.00nz

SUNDAY

REEFSIDE RAROTONGA

2 x Coffee $10

THE MOORINGFISH CAFÉ

2 x Fishsandwich $30

MURI NIGHTMARKET

1 x Pizzashared $20

TOTAL COST$60.00nz

MONDAY

Breakfastprovided at Club Raro

THE MOORINGFISH CAFÉ

2 x Fishsandwich $30

SPAGHETTIHOUSE

1 xVegetable Fettuccini $17.50

1 x ChickenCalzone $18

TOTAL COST$65.50nz

TUESDAY

Breakfastprovided at Club Raro

REEFSIDE RAROTONGA

2 x Coffee $10

THE MOORING

FISH CAFÉ

2 x Fish Sandwich $30

VAIANA’S

1 x Chickenskewers w/salad $15

1 x Fish& Chips $15

TOTAL COST$70.00nz

+

DUTY FREE

Alcohol $25

GROCERIES

Fruit &UHT milk $20

DRINKSPURCHASED

4 Cocktails $40

TOTAL COSTEXTRAS $85.00nz

TOTAL HOLIDAY FOOD COSTS

$600 nzd

Deli-Licious Cafe Breakfast Special $10. A perfect brunch on a budget.